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Exeter Times, 1915-1-7, Page 2GERMAN ATTACK 0031ES TO GRIEF <e Another Raid With Dirigibles and nes on Metz and Other Points a • on Dunkirk 'says : one place eitete cut lear through. ie water 'plane. raid 'Nen Gerraan aeroplanes )13 We nee day raided Dunkirk, and for more than half an hour were dropplag bombs all over. the town. Aecording to returns already in, 15 people were killed and 32 wounded; The visiting fleet comprised four aeroplanes, both Taubes and Avia- tiks, Whieh flew several times anoss the eity, ,drapping bombs on eaeli journey. Soldiers in., the etreets replied with vig74s rifle fire, but • the ansoplan sailed ealmly on. One seemed to have been hit, for he turned 011 his head and descended several hundred feet :before right- ing himself, but all got safely away. The bombs fell first on ;Me side and then on another, No sooner lid one aeroplane seem to be departing than another, arrived. The whole city cracked with rate shots and bombs. which fur e w up de n se cloudof black smoke. Buildings and windows were smashed in all directions and tramway lines at The firat bokaii fell Km the toitifi- eatione and two more near the rail- way station. Another landed hi the, Rae Caumartin and another in the kitchen of the military hospital. Another dell near the Towe others in the Rues Pierre and Nina Port, aud also near the arsenal. Two fell in the suburbs of Resets - deal on a jute factory. The dis- tricts, of Coudekeque and of FureOes also suffered, and many were wounded there. Ons ehild had an arm blosan off, while another with an old woman was 'killed outright, being dreadfully disfigured The bombs were filled with shrapnel, which pitted the walls and build.- ings. A horse in the Rue Nieupart, close to the spat where a bomb fell, was mutilated. British ambulances carried the sufferers to the hospital. Some were dead on arrival there. The fifth German anyplane re- mained as sentry outside the town, taking no part in the raid, but hold- ing, itself m readiness to attack any a the aeroplanes seeking to repel the invading fleet. PRICES tr FARM PR9DET3 arrolies rnera Taxis mrs.131:3t0 s'Xt.e.1.1x; cm7.171stEs ci EXENLIO416 Breacistuffs. Toronto, Jan. 5. -Flour -Manitoba. first pa.te•ats quoted at $6.50, in jute bags; sec- ond patents, 56.10; strong bakers', 53.901 Ontur:o wheat flour, 90 per cent. patents, quoted at 54.75 to 54,82, seaboard. Wheat-.11ani1oba. No. 1 Northern quoted at 51.30 1-2; No. 2 at 51,27 1-2, and No. 3 at $1.23 1-2. Ontario wheat, No, 2 quoted at 51.12 to 51.14, at outside points. Oats Ontario quoted at 49 to 50e, cut - side, and at 52 to 53e on track, Toronto. Western Canada, :No. 9. quoted at 61 1-2e, and :Nei, 3 at 13 Barley Market is quiet, with malting gt• sties at 64 to 63e, outs de. -The ruarse; steady at $i•fil to 51.e6, Peai: The nutrket quiet. with No. 2 quwerl at 51.55 to 51.65. outside. No. 1. new American quoted at 76e, all rat:, Toronto fre.ght. Baelt.vbear- No. 2 quoted at '76 to 78e, outei,de. Bra.- and shorts -Bran is quoted at 525 to 526 a ton, and shorts at 527 to 528. Rolled onts-Car lats, per bag of 90 lba, ^ 53.13. to Country Produce, Butter- Choice dairy, 23 to 24c; inferior, 20 m 21c; ereainery prints, 29 to 30c; do., solid, 28 to 25e; farmers' Izeparator, 26 to 27r. Eggo-New-la,d, selects, -dozen, 35 to 38e; storage. 28 to 30e. Honey -Market is firm at 12 to 13e Der lb. for strained: No. 1 honeycomb, 52.75 per dozen; No. 2, 52.25. Poultry -Chickens, dressed. 13 to 15c; ducks. .dressed, lb., 13 to 14e; fowl, 10 to 11c; geese. 12 to 13e; turkeys, dressed, 18 to 20c. Cheese- New 13 rge. 16 1-4c ; twins, 16 1-4c. Beans--Trimsbus el. ems te ,$2.70; hand -pied. 52 o $1:85. ries, 65 to 70o per bag, at ot store, 5k: in car lots. New Bruns - mks. car lorr. 62 to 65c per bag. Ba'ed Hay and Straw. w is quoted at 87.50 to 58 a ton, in s. on Vatk here. N. 1 new hay is Quoted at 516.50 17, on track here; No. 2 at $15 to 15.60. and No. 3 at $13 to 813.50. Provisions. Pave:is-Long clear 13 1-2 to 14 1-4e Per lb. in ease lots. Hams -Medium. 16 to 17e; , heavy, 14 1-2 to 15e; rolls, 14 to 14 1-20; breakfast bacon, 17 1-2 to 18.e; backs, 20 to Me: boneless backs. 22 to 23e. Lard -Market dull at 11 to 11 1-4c for tierces and at 11 1-2 to 11 3-4e for tubs and. compound,2_1-4 to 9 11ci.44 Minneapolis Wheat. 11.nrscapols, Jan. S. -Wheat, No. 1 hard, $1.25 3-8; No. 1 Northern. 51.22 3-8 to $1.25 7-8; No. 2 Northern. 51.19 3-8 to .22 72; December, 81.21 3-8. Corn -No. 3 w. 62 IsT...63-1-2s. Corn -No. 3 yellavr, 832.2.c Oaa--rNo. a white, 47 1-4 to ,40. Flour, fancy patents, 56.45; first -.dears, 5.35e- second clears. 54.30. Bran uneb ar ged. Duluth, Jan. 5. -Wheat -No. 1 hard, $1.25 1-4; No. 1 Northern, 51.24 1-4: No. 2 Northern, 51.21 1-4; December, 51.23 1-4. Linseed 51.60 3-4; December, $1.60 1-4. Winnipeg Crain. Winnipeg. Jan. 5. -Wheat -No. 1 North- ern, 51.22; No. Z Northern, 51.19; No. 3 Northern, 81.14 1-2; No. 4, 51.10 1-3; No. 5, 81.06; No. 6, 51.01; feed, 97e. Oats -No. 2 C.W., 55 1-4: No. 3 C.W., 52 1-4; extra, No. 1 feed, 63 1-4; No. 1 feed, 49 1-40; No. 2 feed, 48 3-4e Barley, No. 4, 60 1-2*. Flax, No. 1 N. -W. C., $1.34 1-4; No. 2 C. W., $1.31 1-4. . Live Stock Markets. Toronto, Jan. 5. -Butchers' cattle, good, 87 to 57.60; do. medium, $6.50 to 56.75; do. common, 56 to 56.35; butchers' bulls, choice, 56.76 to 57: do. good balls, 56.35 to 56.55; do. rorlgts bu1l, 85 to 55-75; butehers' oorsvs, choice, 86 to 86.75; do. medium, 55.50 to 55.75; do. oomnum, 54.50 to 55; feeders, 900 lbs., 56 to $6,65; do. rough bulls, $5.25 to 56; stackers, 700 to 1,000 lbs., 55.75 to 46,15; .40. medium, 55.50 to 55.75 canners and elates% 53.75 to 55; Milkers, cholee, each, 575 to 590; do., common and medium, each, 535 to 840; springers, 550 to $90; light ewes, 55.35 to 56 do., heavy, 54 to $4.60; do. bucks, $3.75 to 54.25; Jambs. 56 to 58.30; calves, $6 to 510; hogs, fed and watered, 57.50; do., off oars, 87.751 f.o.b.,'57,15, Montreal, Jan. 5. -There was no good eatti.e on the market, and the stook offer- ed sold at from 54 to 56, COWS at 53.75 to 54, and bulls at $6 to 86 per *wt. Sales of lambs were made at $7 to 58, and sheep at $4.50 to $5.50 per out. The qualitY of the calves on the market was poor. whioh sold at, :prices rangingfrom-53 to 810 each as to size and quality. A stronger feel- ing prevailed in the market for hogs. and prices advanced 25c per owt., and sales of selected lots were made at 58 to 58.25 per owt., weighed off oars. • DANGER IN ELY POISON. Move on Foot to Prohibit Their 31:mutat:titre. Because of the large and increas- ing number of cases where children have been poisoned by variou.sfly poisons, a determined effort is be- ing made by a number of medical associations and other sources in- terested in the health of children to prohibit the manufacture and sale of sueh products. In less than three months during the summer of; 1913, forty-seven cases of thildren being poisoned were reported in the newspapers of eighteen American states. Of these quite a number proved fatal,. and many others were expected to die. The rian to -children in the use of fly pois , lies in the fact that practically all of them enatain arsenic in a sufficient quantity to cause death or very serious illness, even when but a little of the pre- paration is swallowed by the child. Children are particularly attract- ed to fly poisons because of the fact that it is customary to mix sugar with the poison in order to attract the flies. There were undoubtedly a. greet many cases of ehildren being .poi- soned in this way which 'did not come to public attention, especially because of the fact that the symp- toms of arsenical poisoning in ehil- dren are almost identical with the symptoms of cholera infantum. This deadly infantile disease pre- vails during the fly season and the doctors state that it is practically impossible to determine whether death was caused by cholera infan- tum or fly poison, unless the chil- dren are !actually seen drinking .or sucking the poison. The authorities in South Africa have already taken .steps to regu- late and ultimately eliminate 'the sale of fly polsons, and it is hoped by the opponents of these prepara- tions to secure prohibitory legisla- tion in the various states at an early date. In the meantime, parents having sraall ebildern are particularly can- tioned against the use of fly poison of any kind in locations where it is within reach of the children. The less some men know about anything the louder they talk about it. SOON TAKE THE INITIATIVE The Germans Must Abandon Their Present Tgctics, Says a French Expert A despateh from Paris says: Servia, when !at the very moment Lieut. -C1, Rousset devotes a. long editorial in the Liberte to an analy- sis of the situation ereated by the extrandinary complex system of entrenehments on both sides. He refutes the ,argument often put for- ward that neither the Germans war the allies can hope now for a deci- sive ohange in the near future, "On the .eantrary," he says, "very soon we gleai1 be in a. position to take the initiative,. 'I'he enemy, run to earth b,oth in the east and '-'wt, will be foreed to abandon his regent taetics. Then a batbIe on apoleonic pei 01ples -will prove delve as it proved ree-datly in the Auetrateis 'believed they had a -victory in hand they were over- whelmed. Yet before striking, their crushing blow the Serviane had re- tired some one hundred kilometres. "We do not need to retire. On the contrary, we,are holding. firm, and we are 'rearing, like valiant little Servia, our weapons for the decisive encounter. It is nob num- bers that guarantee victory. It is determination to win, and above all .a steady pursuit of the sok object of war, namely, the demoralization of the enemy, When our general staff efts th moment to wilco heel .ed he low will be struck" 1 Slaughter Follows Effort to Resume the :Offensive Towards Warsaw. , A despatch from London says: Sueceas for the Russians in a san- guinary engagement KM the Rawka, River 40 Miles south-west of War- saw at I101ienew, where •the Ger- mane made a desperate effort to reeilme•the offeasive,ii‘repeeted in an (IWO ,conummicatien„ Mai the headquarters of Grand Duke Niehos tee. The Germans, 'according to the Rueelan, staternent, moved for - wind ander a Withering fire from the Russian artillery, and eendea- vored to take by assault the treriela es in front ,of three 'villages east Of the elver, ' "Our troops," the Grand Duke report's, "by an impetuous couaters attaek Slaughtered with their bayo- nets all of the enemy with the ex- ceptienaef a few, who were made prissmer. In this engagement we captured German machine guns and inflicted enormous losses ea the enemy, who brought into action suecessively regiments from divers army corps." At Inoloele, on the Pillea 65 ladles e.,outh of Warsaw, the Russians stormed and occupied some Ger- man trenches. Further south the Germans, after a longcannonade, made an infantry assault, which was repulsed by the Russian artil- lery, excepting at one point, where the enemy secured an entrenched position. Later he Waal dislodged and thrown out of this ground by a Russian counter-attaek. It is unoffleially reported from Petrograd that the German prison- ers taken by the Russians during the last fortnight exceed 50,000 in number. r. COMMalider Hewlett ReseueS. A despatch from London says: The newspaper Aeroplane learni that two German destroyers were .seen approaching Lhe aeroplane of Flight -commander Francis Hewlett, son of Maurice Hewlett, the novel- ist, who was reported missing after the recent aerial raid on Cux- haven, and that there is reason to believe that he was saved by the Germans. Grand. Duchess Elizabeth Feodor- Sister of the Tsaritsa who, helped by members of the dramatic profes- Ginn is in the streets of Moscow making remarkable caravan collec- tions in aid of the Russian wound- ed, • The picture depicts the Grand Duchees as a Sister of Mercy of the Greek Church. The Order is called Martha, and Mary. -.3 MARITZ DEFEATS LOYALISTS. Rebel Leader Takes 90 Prisoners and Muck Anunimilion. A des -patch from Pretoria. says: Lieut. -Col. Maritz, the rebel lead- er, reappeared at the head of BOO rebels. armed with four guns and four maxims, and defeated the Loyalists at Schuh Drift, eapturing 00 men, a maxim, and 80,000 rounds of ammunition. -a Ile Would Earn H. "Supposine°1 give you your sup- per," said the tired -looking woman, "what will you do to earn it?" "Madam," said Tired Tim, "I'll glee you the opportunity of seeing a men go through a whole meal without finding fault with a single thing." The woman thought for a moment, and then told him to comes in and she'd set the table. FORMIDABLE SI-,xK IN CHANNEL British Battleship Either Hit Mine or Was Tor- mom. pedoecl A despatch from London says: The British battleship Formidable was sunk in the English Channel on Friday morning with the loss, it is believed, of about 600 officers and men. So far as is definitely known, there are 150 survivors of 'the dis- aster. The vessel's normal comple- ment was 781 officers and men. The Daily Chronicle states that surviv- ors of the battleship Formidable report, that the vessel was torpe- doed both fore and aft early Friday morning and sank almost imme- diately, giving the crew hardly time lto escape. The place of the disas- ter was not given in the official an- nouncement, nor had the cause of the vessel's loss been determined. The brief and rather meagre official statement issued was as follows: "The battleship Formidable was sunk in the Channel but whether by a mine or a submarine is not yet certain. "Eighty survivors have been pick- ed up by a British lighlbcruiser'and it. is possible that others may have been rescued by other vessels." It was later announced that the Tor Bay trawler Providence had landed 70 additional survivor's. They were rescued by the trawler during a 'terrific storm Friday morning. This makes the aggre- gate number of saved, so far an is known, 150, Among the eescued are eight officere'Ved graiashisrr men. The Daily Mall quotes from the Plymouth Mercury a detailed story of the rescue of the two officers and 68 men by the Brixham trawler Providence. The Providence was running for shelter from a gale, but was compelled to heave to off Start Point, in Devonshire,. which juts into the Channel 25 miles south-east of Plymmith. The rescue was effected under dangerous and exciting circum- stances. The crew of the trawler was amazed while. running before the gale for shelter to find a small, open boat driving under their lee through mountainous seas with an oar hoisted, bearing a. sailor's scarf. After .strenuous efforts those on the trawler succeeded in getting a. rope to the cutter and brought her with great skill to berth at their stern. . The naval men began to jump aboard, ,but even then • there was danger of losing mon, as 'the seas were rising thirty feet high. After thirty minutes' labor, however, all were safely rescued. One lad of nineteen was so exhausted by ex- posure that he requieed immediate treatment to save his life. When all had left the dater her rope was cut as she was full of svelter, hav- ing a. hole under her hull which had been stuffed with a pair of trousers of which one man had di- vested himself for the purpose. Some of the 'rescued Then had no trousers and these were cared for in the warm engine room. The na- val men had been in the euteer for eigarly twelve hours. The -crew of the trawler distributed hot coffee, food and tobacco among the be- numbed sailors. When they landed at Brixhain the residents brought blankets, olothing and boots forthe survivors and housed them in com- fortable quarters. British War Prisoner Must Die A despatch from Copenhagen says: A Berlin message says that the German supreme war tribunal has sentenced a British war prisoner named Lansdale to death for as- saulting a German officer at the Doberitz aoncentration camp. Loos - dale, in the first instance, was sen- tenced to ten years' imprisonment, but the military authorities' appeal for a eentenoe of capital punish- ment has been successful. Lans- dale, it is aclraittecl, did net hurt the offieer, and the prison guard beat him off. Austrian Dreadnought Torpedoed A despatch to the London Daily Mail from Verdee contains a report that a Fr nbrearine boat has torpe 'trt Dread - ala, It ight, ANAGiNG WAR ALL RIGHT British Public Cease Criticism -There Is No Need to Fear An Invasion A despatch from London says: Criticism of the Government's war preparations 'which was rampant during the eerly stages of the war, has largely ceased, •• The War Office hag now enlisted the services of business men with experience in earrying out big en- terprises to take. part in the work of sapplying the aFilly, and the labor unions have volunteered to watch the execution of Govern- ment contracts, not only to see that proper equipment and rations are supplied to the soldiers, but to pre- vent sweating. Arneld White, a prominent wri- ter and former .colonial official, has been Making a thorough inspection of the trainmg cams for the pur- pose of detecting ,any .scandals and mismanagement. Haying been a bitter enemy of the Government, his point ef view wee not prejudieed in its. revue. He elites: "Having isited 36 donna in vari- ous parts of the countrynI am thor- oughly cheered In the majority of eakas business men are handliug the diiieult probleins, of war. Dwellers inland have no eoneeption. of the thoroughness efficiency and eilence with which the War Office andethe Admiralty.have ,co-operated for the business o1 peel:reeding a German raid or invasion. The ,alarre that is still :fela in some parts of these is- lands is:Wholly uniustified, beeause, firstly, the bazinees efficiexsey of the fleet under Jellicoe e has increased since the war began, and, Secondly, because the practical measures adopted- by our military engineers, if generally known, would enable the timid to sleep vie* in their beds." RUSSIANS: A.GAIN INVADE. Czar's Troops Have Crossed the Carpathians by Four Passes. A despatch from London says: Reports emanating from 'diplomatic sources in B,ome are that the Rus- sians have again crossed the Car- pathians into Hungary. Four of the Mountain pesses are said now to be in -the possession of the forces of Grand Duke Nicholas, which are at the heels of the Austrian army re- treating- towards the plains to -the southward The opinion is held that this new invasion of Hungary, rendered pos- sible by the collapse of the Aus- trian offensive in Galicia, will make it inevitable for Field Marshal von Hindenburg to draw off.the German army with which he has been vainly trying to break down the Russian defences on the Bzura and Rawka Rivers to the west of Warsaw. With Hungary at the mercy of the Cossacks, and with. all hopesanone of the defenders of Ceaoowdbeing reinforced froin the south, it is ex- pected that the Germ= comman- der-in-ahief will immediately find it necessary to transfer the greatee number of his troops from Poland in order to defend the Silesia, fron- tier from invasion. SEND MAIL BY ARROWS. Germans Confiscate Implements Used to Avoid Their Censorship. A despatch from Paris says: The Germans generally confisoated bows and arrows found in Northern Bel- gium, where archery still flourishes. French, humorists were amused at this action at the time, but it ap- pearthat the Belgians were using the arrows to shoot letters into Holland to avoid the • German cen- sorship; Caller -"So your sister and her sweetheart are very close mouthed over their engagement 5" Little Ethel -"Close-mouthed! You ought to see them together I" JOFFRE'S GIFT TO FRENCHIM The Richest Part of Alsace Again Under French Adininis- tration. A des.patoh from Paris says: It is plainly evident that the people Francs could ,have had no more pleasing New Year's girt than the PUS contained in the announcement that the French Government has appointed a sub -prefect for the "'department of Haute -Rhine," which comprises the richest part of She lost province of Alsa,ce. This is important not only from a senti- mental point of view, but likewis,e• from a military basis, It is inter- prated- as .meaning that..the French havasion af Alsa,ce-Lorraine pnogresse,d to.sueh a degree that a civil .ackninistnation • of 00aq:tiered- territary is entirely compatible with the strategic aims of the gen- eral staff. The re,00cupation of Alsace-Lorraine disastrously at- tempted in the early stages of the war has long' been desirable from many standpoints. Now it has ap- parently become necessary boon the standpoint of offe,neive warfa-re. In other weeds, the French troops have advanced ,so far in Alsace that the region remaining under their con- trol had to be incorporated in the GdSernment of France, and Alsace has become what it was before 1870 -French in laws, customs and procedure. • • The Germans several days ago re- cognized in an offieial statement Shat the allies were planning a. gen- arta forward movement in Alsace, and warned 'their people to expect such news. It has been known here fer 8101ne time that this plan had met with full suocess, but not until Friday was the seal of aocomplish- ment set Ilona it in the appoint- ment of M. Paulhe as administra- tor of th.e region, with his head- qu,aater'at Dan.nemarie. FRANCE BUILDS AM FLEETS Large Divisions of Aeroplanes Will Operate, In- stead of Raids by a Few Machines at a Time A despatch from New Yorks says: France is building two great fleets of aircraft, armed with cannon, darts and bombs, with will& to in- vade Germany in the spring, accor- ding to Pedro Cbapa, a Mexican aviator, who has be.en in Europe for the past four years, and who arrived here on ..the Cunard liner Carpathian. Hundreds cif armored biplanes, each carrying a small cannon and bombs, and numerous monoplanes equipped with bombs and steel darts, will be ready to sweep across the ,Geernan frontier when winter is passed, he said.' The monoplanes are intended mainly for seout•work, and will ma.ke a speed of 120 miles an hour. All the aero - panes will have a cruising radius of 130 miles from the frontiers, said Chapa, and their atta'ek vvill not. be in the form of raids by. .a, few ma- chines as hitherto,. but by large di- visions. The .aviators.to Man these maahine,s are now being trained in several large cities for the purpose, he said. ' CANADIAN RE. OUNT EPOT Col. Grant Morden RAurns From Front; Where He ' 'Narrowly Escaped a Bursting Shell A despatch from London says: Colonel Grant Morden of Montreal, formerly of Toronto, has returned to England after several w,eeks spent at the front. He has, estab- lished a Canadian reraount depot in France. Col, Morden had a narrow escape while he was in the trenches,. A shell buret close beside him, and his hearing has been.temporarily impaired by the -concussion. 1fl a little French village within a4znd of the guns Princess Petri a's Light Infantry, the first of the an- adian contingent to go to the fr rite' are billeted, waiting their tur4 bo go into the trenche,s. They sere accorded a splendid reception, b their comrades in arms and) he French villagers, Port.Ogit($. For(a. Were.. Defeate A despatch from Lisbon wise The was pierced, but that she eucceed- Portugneee Government has, asp - ed in reaching her dock. The Virie • Plied detaile of an dagage.ment be - bus tlnitis is of 20,000 tone displace- tween the Porthgueee and G-errnan ment, and has a ;• complement op forces in. Angora. '131.1e, German. me 1,000 men. She ie one Of the our tillery attacked Fart Naukillas and ships eonstituting the largest, type the Portuguese made in steady ro- of the Austrian navy. sistanee t -o the enemy's entry, whieh tried to taro their left wing. ' great numerical superiority of till Germans obligee' the Porteigue troops to retreat, Cavalry wati e gaged on both sides tund there re mutely losses. Eigitt, P,Ortngaese, 1111 eers were killed and aeus,slaas iul 0115 is a p.rieoner. POLICE OP -VIENNA CRAIIGE .?EACE MOB Wound Thirty eand Arrest Large Number of AntisWar Rioters. , A despatch from London sera: The Daily Chronicle's eorrespond- ent at Basel qtaotes reports from Geneva of 'serious internal troubles in Austria and Hungary. A crow made a demonstration aecording to these reporte, in of peace and denonlikkg the war. Women shouted "GirTrize back our husbands and eons." The police - charged the demonstrators in the Praterstrasse, where they were threatening the official , buildings, and wounded thirty of the manifest - ants. Several others were arrest- ed and are being court-martialed. "Since the Servien victory'," the correspoudent says, "not a da,), passes in Budapest erithoub distaah-a once. Crowds.once or twice have turned against the police, shouting 'Down with Tiza' (the Hungarian Premier). A majority, of the Row martian population of Transylvania has refused to be enrolled in Hun- gariao regiments and has appealed to R,ohmania to help them. Sev- eral prominent. politicians have dis- appeared feorn Prague and the po- lice refuse information regarding them. "Some students a'a-res ed in a de- monstration are believe have been shot. "Sedition and mutiny are rife. She coast districts of Dalin Soores of students have been im- prisoned at Agram because of de- monstrations in favor of the Serbs. Panic reigns in Sarajevo, on which the Serbs are advancing rapidly. The remnants of the defeated Aus- trian army are re-forming in Bos- nia, The new commander, Arch- duke Eugene, ds eliminating the Slav soldiers and is replacing them , with reserves to a total strength of ab o at 120,000. "A hundred persons have been arrested at Sarajevo charged with -being involved in a, revolutionary plot, and several State employes have been executed on charges that they were spying for the Serbs." IN FORWARDING MAIL: Many Letters Intended for Soldiers Abroad are Irisnfficiently,Prepaid. It is, found that a number of let- ters, •post -cards, packets and other articles of mail addrsMi for de- livery in England and Mielhe Conti- nent, more particularly for mem- bers of the expeditionary fora, received at the General Post -o insufficiently prepaid. Mail matter addressed to Came- dia,n soldiers in- Frame or else - e here on the Conbinent ntust be fully prepaid at the usual pastalaseee union ra,tes, which for letters is five cents for the first ounce, and thre;, cents for each additional ounee, li cases where the senders of letters or newspapers or other articles of mail matter do not know whether the addressee is in England or abroad, the only way in which they can be sure of it being fully pre- paid is to pay the postal union rates on it. This is for the reason .that it is impossible to eolleet any sur- charges placed on an item of mail metter from the eddressee if en ac- tive service. All insufficiently prepaid letters, post -cards and pacdcets addressed to She British expeditionary farce serving on the Continent will be returned to the senders. As to the rate of postage for par- cels addressed to the soldiers new at Salisbury Plains, or in active service, enquiry shtmld be made at the General Post -office or ono of the postal stations. GENERAL'S DEVOTION. Sacrificed Own Life to Saw Whole Brigade. An equal heroism inspireee ranks of the Freneh army, from pri- vate to general.. In the mathema- tical nature of things, ef course, more privates then generals .show themselves heroes. All the more reason then to remark the following adrof heroism on the peat of a gen- eral of brigade. This general had received orders from the high et, quarters to .advance ,his mon along se certain road. Which was swept by. the enemy's fire. Obedience to these orders would mean the pr cad annihilation of his brigade the general hetor i knsw it. ..nwwconee thz ceasary.• respect for authority with She ;desire to spate it fruitless waste of life? He oould obey bin:ells", or wilfully dis,obey-that to the ordi- nary man would have been thc tea, ribbe alteenative. Bat our goneral had a Freriehm•an'e keen judgement as well ase soldier's 'heroism. He found a 'middle and a•poble vay, r71 spite of his ettuff's restrainiras ed - vice, he insisted ou advancin eell alone through the .7,0ne of tire. "If I Win through aniaathed." he said, "my brigacle. can •follow. lidte my ordersare that they:remoi where they are." He edvaneed fell rjeldled With, bullets. He seeearl lamer and his bilgtiti